La construcción de ciudades innovadoras: transformaciones económicas recientes y desarrollo local en Getafe

In the last years, intermediate cities have recovered their leading role in scientific bibliography and in the strategies of territorial arrangement to promote a polycentric and more balanced territorial development. However, only some of them have proved to have the necessary learning ability to st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Méndez Gutiérrez del Valle, Ricardo, García Palomares, Juan Carlos, Michelini, Juan José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/2534
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2534
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Innovation
Intelligent city
Institutions and local development
Getafe (Madrid)
Descripción
Sumario:In the last years, intermediate cities have recovered their leading role in scientific bibliography and in the strategies of territorial arrangement to promote a polycentric and more balanced territorial development. However, only some of them have proved to have the necessary learning ability to stimulate innovative initiatives and have them materialized out of an improvement of its competitive capacity and welfare. The article analyzes those processes on Getafe (South of Madrid), one of the most innovative and active cities in the metropolitan context. Once the theoretical context is introduced, the historical inheritance which the studied processes are founded on is described. The construction of the city project and its consequences, specially its productive and economic evolution are analyzed. Finally, the paper analyzes the role of local actors, social networks and the institutional coordination that explain the success of the process.